Alternative Cancer Treatments

Cancer is a world-wide problem but is there another approach to this disease that makes scientific sense? At LifeWorks Wellness Center, we think so. Here are the details. What Makes a Cancer Cell Different? A cell became cancerous because it has been damaged by ...

IPT Therapy is an effective alternative cancer treatment that uses two traditional drugs – one commonly used to treat diabetics and a chemotherapy drug. Decades ago it was discovered that cancer cells are “sugar hungry” and uptake more chemotherapy when...

It has often been said that there is no medicine as powerful as oxygen, and starved of oxygen, the body will die in about six minutes. In a natural healthy state, the body is constantly regenerating and renewing itself and oxygen plays a vital part in this...

Heating the body or parts of the body to induce healing is a practice that has been around for hundreds of years, and Molecular Hyperthermia Therapy (I-Therm) is among the newer forms of this...

Vitamin C is one of the best known of all the vitamins, and is very popular among people who like to use supplements. It is also present in a variety of foods from oranges and strawberries to kale and broccoli.

There probably isn’t another form of cancer which generates as much publicity as breast cancer. Breast cancer awareness charities garner massive support because of most people in the U.S. know someone...

In recent years, public awareness of breast cancer has soared. Pink ribbons are everywhere and advice and reports abound, from how to prevent breast cancer, to how to be safely screened for it, to the alternative methods of treatment if you are diagnosed with it...

It was Nobel Prize winner, Otto Warburg, who first identified that cancer cells have an altered metabolism. In 1931, this was a breakthrough and has led to a greater understanding of how cancer...

Cancer is a complex group of diseases with many possible causes: Genetics: Cancer is such a common disease that it is no surprise that many families have at least a few members who have had cancer. Sometimes, certain types of cancer seem to run in some families due to an abnormal gene that is being...

Breast cancer remains one of the most widely acknowledged and discussed cancers in the U.S. Indeed, the National Cancer Institute estimates that in 2014 there will be 232,670 new cases of breast cancer, with approximately 12.3 percent of women in the U.S. being diagnosed in their lifetime...

Cancer rarely occurs overnight, it is typically a slow-burn process which may take up to ten years before real symptoms occur and it is properly diagnosed. This chronic condition quietly grows until the tumor cells metastasize (spread throughout the body) and this is usually the point when...

Cancer is a word that strikes real fear in people – fear of getting the disease, and fear of the outcome if they have been diagnosed. That fear is hardly unwarranted with cancer rates continuing to soar in the US, where men have slightly less than a 1 in 2 lifetime risk of developing cancer; for women, the risk is a little more than 1 in 3.*

The subject of breast cancer reaps a lot of publicity, especially around October, which is the annual Breast Cancer Awareness month. Women are increasingly encouraged to have regular mammograms to detect lumps, especially if there is a history of breast cancer in their family...

Cancer is a word which strikes fear into most people, especially those with a family history of the disease. And with the huge increase in environmental toxins and their potential carcinogenetic effects, many people wonder if anything can be done to...